Lake Dorothy Packrafting May 29-31, 2026 Eric and Matthew 24 miles hiking, 5 miles packrafting The Alpine Lakes Wilderness in WA has roughly 300 officially named lakes, but only about half a dozen have islands, and of these it appears only Lake Dorothy has islands that might be big enough… Continue reading
Mt Elbert Survey, Colorado Highpoint May 23, 2026 Eric Gilbertson, Rob Painter, Matt Sewick 5am – 6pm, 10 miles, 4.5kft gain Results: Mt Elbert summit is 14,439.45ft +/-0.04ft (NAD83 2011 Epoch 2010 NAVD88 Geoid 18) Location (39.1177295861, -106.445353442) (Note: elevation in beta version of NAPGD2022 Geoid19B, the upcoming new US… Continue reading
Mount Whitney and Mount Muir Surveys May 9, 2026 Eric Gilbertson 3am – 5pm, 18 miles, 6500ft gain Results: Mt Whitney – 14,500.70ft +/-0.04ft NAVD88 Mt Muir – 14,028.4 ft +/-0.2ft NAVD88, prominence 318.6ft Mount Whitney is the tallest peak in the lower 48 states and is located in the… Continue reading
Rainier and Liberty Cap Spring Survey 2026 May 3, 2026 15.5 miles, 10.5kft gain Eric Gilbertson, Olly Cohen, Tim Hambidge Summary of results: Columbia Crest accumulated 1.3ft of snow and Liberty Cap accumulated 9.7ft of snow over the winter. I’m continuing surveying all the current and former icecap peaks at… Continue reading
Colfax Peak Spring Survey 2026 April 26, 2026 Eric Gilbertson and Elijah Gendron 10 miles skiing, 4 miles snowmobiling. 4:30am – 2pm I’m measuring seasonal snow accumulation on the remaining icecap peaks every spring, and had just finished measuring Eldorado a few days earlier. The timeframe late April to early… Continue reading
Eldorado Peak Spring Survey April 23, 2026 Eric Gilbertson Eldorado Peak used to be one of the five icecapped peaks of the contiguous US, but I discovered it lost its status as an icecapped peak around 2020. Now by late summer every year the highest point is rock. However, there… Continue reading
Dirtyface Peak, Dirtyface Benchmark, Dirtyface Lookout, and Peak 5860 April 12, 2026 Eric Gilbertson 7 miles hiking, 16 miles snowmobiling I stayed at John’s awesome cabin Saturday night, then Sunday morning drove to nearby Pole Ridge road, where the north facing aspects still held some snow. My goal was to… Continue reading
Argyros (8,149ft), First Ascent Route – Silver Sliver (1000ft, steep snow and snice) April 3-5, 2026 44 miles boating, 4 miles biking dragging boat, 18 miles hiking/climbing Eric Gilbertson and Nick Roy There still possibly exist unclimbed peaks in the remote corners of Washington, and one of them happened to… Continue reading
International Glacier Attempt Eric Gilbertson and Jason Hummel March 21-23, 2026 45 miles boating, 5 miles hiking, 15 miles skiing, 4 miles dragging boat on road Jason Hummel is working on a project to ski all ~300 named glaciers in Washington, and he’s getting prettly close to finishing. International Glacier… Continue reading
Dorado Needle Attempt March 12-14, 2026 Eric and Ryan Dorado Needle has the distinction of the WA Bulger peak I’ve bailed on the most in winter. Before this trip I bailed on three other winter attempts, so now the total is four. In mid March 2020 Matthew and I skied… Continue reading